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					<h1>Fall Veggies</h1>
					<p>In the Fall we like to use as many fresh vegetables as possible. We do this in other seasons, too, but there&#8217;s just something about hearty fall veggies that my wife and I really love. So tonight, as I waited for Leopard to install, I used one such veggie&#8211;several fresh local sweet potatoes&#8211;to make a tasty soup.</p>
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						<li>2 large sweet potatoes, cut into 1 inch cubes</li>
						<li>1 large onion, rough cut into one inch pieces</li>
						<li>3 cloves of garlic minced</li>
						<li>32 ounces of chicken stock</li>
						<li>3 par boiled chicken breasts (smallish ones)</li>
						<li>1 tbsp butter</li>
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						<li>A palmful of each of the following: cumin, paprika</li>
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					<p>Heat butter and canola oil in a dutch oven or deep stock pot. Add garlic and sauté for a minute or so. Add onion and sauté a little longer, until onion is mostly translucent. Add sweet potatoes to mixture, stirring often. Add cumin, paprika, salt, and pepper and continue to stir just until pan begins to dry out slightly. Add chicken stock and scrape pan bottom. Cover and simmer while shredding chicken, for about 20 minutes or until sweet potatoes are tender. Add chicken and cook an additional five minutes to give flavor to chicken. Serve in large bowls, optionally topping with any nutty cheese.The best part of this recipe is the broth, which has this complex flavor of onion and garlic with the sweetness from the paprika. Great stuff on a rainy fall night.</p>
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						Posted by littlerobothead on October 21, 2007 @ 9:13 PM
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					<h1>Here's to Beigeville</h1>
					<p>So, we close on the house tomorrow. Right now, I&#8217;m sitting in an almost bare house that&#8217;s almost packed and I&#8217;m almost asleep. I&#8217;m told that closings take a long time, and before I can attend ours I&#8217;ll be cleaning and watching the insulation guys do their thing.</p>
					<p>This hasn&#8217;t been a bad apartment, aside from the heat that went on the fritz last winter and all the bats this summer. At least the neighbors were quiet, even the Ukrainian strippers.</p>
					<p>Sometime tomorrow it will sink in that my wife and I are the proud owners of a pile of wood and brick and cement that we bought to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac">put our stuff in</a>. It&#8217;s a little absurd, really; I mean, who would have ever thought that I would buy a house, much less one that essentially is in the middle of nowhere. When I think of all the times that I sat in a restaurant here and mourned the death of our anonymity, longing for the days in DC when everyone didn&#8217;t know all of your shit, it seems even more odd.</p>
					<p>But it&#8217;s perfect in a way, really. I&#8217;m not normal, so signing on to do a three hour commute for at least another three years kind of fits. Besides, who wants to pay DC rent? And anyone who&#8217;s seen my wife&#8211;or talked to her about her work, and heard just how brilliant she is&#8211;has even more evidence about why I might forgo a better job in a more stimulating town and sign on for a heaping helping of Beigeville. For this, I&#8217;ll take the constant waving at everyone we see; the inability to make it out of the coffee shop in under an hour. The trade off is that I have great friends in two cities, and a wealth of people to help us move all our stuff in that aforementioned pile of wood and brick and cement.</p>
					<blockquote><p>Owning a home is just another club to join, like the married club or the having kids club. After years of actively not wanting to be a member of any club that would have me, I think I'm weakening in my old age. As long as I can stay a member of the PBR and sheetcake club, this should be pretty easy.</p></blockquote>
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